Thursday 17 - 20th

Thursday 17^th – Sunday 20^th.

We spent 4 nights at Camping Cudillera the weather was mixed. We spent an afternoon sat at the bar at the far end of the beach it was hot and sunny with people swimming in the sea, other days were spent walking into Cudillera itself and exploring the café bars and the harbour area. It was the Easter period so the town was quite busy and this lent itself to some valuable ‘people watching’.

Finally on Sunday we decided to move. The site wifi had not been working and we wanted to keep in touch with events back home…most notably Liverpool’s title hopes.

We therefore took an hours drive east to Ribadesella, here we found a great terraced site a 30min walk outside the town with lovely views of the Picos Mountains. We pitched on the higher and therefore drier section and got the internet on. The best we could do was access to Sky Live Commentary, not radio but something similar to David Colemans 1960’s Grandstand Teleprinter….typed reports of the action every two minutes!

Later in the afternoon we walked down to the beach area, we hadn’t expected to find such an attractive waterfront with a wide promenade that took you all the way to a river and eventually the town. An exceptional resort. That evening with no food in the fridge we walked into town and ate at a bar.

Wednesday 16^th.

The boat docked in Gijon right on time at 8pm and after a slight delay in exiting the ferry, caused by a Spanish truck driver reversing into an English campervan, we hit the motorway and made it to Camping Cudillera at around 9pm